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New Zealand Tablet, 3 June 1915, Page 41

M. Mclof, life eminent Parliamentary representative of Namur, who had been received by the Sovereign Pontiff and Cardinal Gasparri last November, was granted another audience by the Holy Father on April 4. According to the Rome correspondent of the, Paris Journal, who" interviewed him, M. Melot was most favorably impressed by his visit. He pointed out to the French journalist that, ever since his election, as Pope, Benedict XV. has constantly affirmed the_ immutable laws of the Church on the inviolability of right, and has on various occasions condemned the abuse of force. He has also condemned the philosophical teaching which substitutes brute force for right. M. Melot added 'As for the Catholic teachings relative to the laws of war, the article recently published in the Civilta Gattolka, which was evidently approved by the Vatican, contains a complete statement. Everyone who reads that article, in the light of the facts of the present war, known to-day, will find the implicit condemnation of the abominable methods employed by the German Government and generals.'